Dinner slated for young fathers

Published: Sunday, July 13, 2014 at 09:00 AM.

Young fathers are invited to chow down and sound off at an event held by the Onslow County Partnership for Children next week.

Food from Buffalo Wild Wings will be served at 6 p.m. Wednesday at the Early Head Start building on 103 North Plain Road off of Western Boulevard. The dinner is part of an event that seeks to ask young fathers what they want from the Partnership’s Young Families Connect program.

According to Seth Allen, parent specialist for the partnership, it hasn’t always been easy to reach out to young fathers trying to raise their children.

According to Allen, it isn’t always easy for fathers to come out to program’s daytime events.

“We face challenges with dads because they usually work,” Allen said. “Things we don’t during the day don’t fit into their schedule. We try to have activities in the evening with more turnouts with fathers.”

Allen says the program is there to help the partnership understand what they can do to help fathers become more involved. The event will give fathers in attendance the opportunity to voice their opinions.

“Fathers come at parenting completely differently than mothers,” Allen said. “We want to see what can get them involved and in order to do that, we have to work with them.”

Fathers and soon-to-be fathers between the ages of 13 and 24 are welcome to the dinner. According to the Partnership, $20 gift cards will be given to fathers that come out and another $10 will be given to each father who brings another young dad.

“Just hoping we get a lot more dad involvement,” Allen said. “We want to be able to develop things that will get the dads out and engaged and little more active in the program.”

To sign up or for more information, call Allen at 910-938-1967.

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Young fathers are invited to chow down and sound off at an event held by the Onslow County Partnership for Children next week.

Food from Buffalo Wild Wings will be served at 6 p.m. Wednesday at the Early Head Start building on 103 North Plain Road off of Western Boulevard. The dinner is part of an event that seeks to ask young fathers what they want from the Partnership’s Young Families Connect program.

According to Seth Allen, parent specialist for the partnership, it hasn’t always been easy to reach out to young fathers trying to raise their children.

According to Allen, it isn’t always easy for fathers to come out to program’s daytime events.

“We face challenges with dads because they usually work,” Allen said. “Things we don’t during the day don’t fit into their schedule. We try to have activities in the evening with more turnouts with fathers.”

Allen says the program is there to help the partnership understand what they can do to help fathers become more involved. The event will give fathers in attendance the opportunity to voice their opinions.

“Fathers come at parenting completely differently than mothers,” Allen said. “We want to see what can get them involved and in order to do that, we have to work with them.”

Fathers and soon-to-be fathers between the ages of 13 and 24 are welcome to the dinner. According to the Partnership, $20 gift cards will be given to fathers that come out and another $10 will be given to each father who brings another young dad.

“Just hoping we get a lot more dad involvement,” Allen said. “We want to be able to develop things that will get the dads out and engaged and little more active in the program.”